Blogs of the House of LAN
X-Fi nally on Kubuntu!
Finally! I have my X-Fi Extreme Music working in Kubuntu. Now I don't have to have a second soundcard installed just to get me linux sound.
ATi Graphics Cards and Kubuntu
I've had bad experiences with ATi cards and Linux before. Happily it was not the case this time. Here's how I set up my Sapphire ATi Radeon 3870 HD. I also throw in the desktop effects install at the end.
Grif gets an upgrade
As I posted in 00000080 bytes of pain, my main PC (Grif) has been having issues, which turn out to be memory related. The nice folks at Unleash have given me some temporary memory while my dud memory is being returned under warranty. It turns out all I had was DDR1, but my motherboard supports 1 & 2, so I've got a 1GB stick of DDR2 at the moment. Meanwhile I've been busy ordering upgraded parts. I've got 2x 1GB sticks of Kingston goodness on its way, as well as a couple of 320GB SATA2 drives with a lovely 16mb of cache.
00000080 bytes of pain
My computer has started suffering from BSOD's recently. A memory test reveals that one part of the memory is failing its check by 00000080 each time. Sigh. Luckily Kingston has a lifetime warranty, although I'm probably going to have to deal with a smaller amount of DDR1 while it is being returned to base. Good thing my motherboard supports both DDR1 & 2.
Kubuntu with fakeraid
Updated! This page now reflects Kubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS)